"In order for the people to have a way to live, and the upper and lower levels are not closed, more strata are needed ......"

Wang Dou said: "If there is a big mine, how many miners are needed?" ”

Zhang Gui groaned: "Prospectors, miners, instigators, watchers, and miners...... At least thousands. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Wang Dou said: "Yes, at least thousands, they still have families, so calculated, one mine can feed tens of thousands of Dingkou." ”

"Mining ore requires someone to transport it, and along the way, you need to eat and rest, so that there are transportation caravans and many inns, and you can feed a lot of people. Then, the ore needs to be smelted, and iron mills, foundries and other factories need to be set up, and these production houses need to recruit manpower, and how many people can be supported? ”

"To make iron, you need a lot of coal and stone, so you need to open a lot of coal mines, and you need a lot of people. Coal is mined, it needs to be transported, and a large number of people are required. Ordinary coal, to be smelted into coke, needs relevant manpower factories and mines, and how many people can be fed? ”

"They have to eat and drink in all the mines, and they need grain, grass, cloth, salt, and tea, and these goods need to be transported from outside, and how many caravans can they feed? Moreover, these commercial goods cannot all be transported from the outside world over long distances, so there must be a large number of planting, processing, and textile factories locally or nearby, and how many people can be fed? ”

"All walks of life are booming, and then, the people are rich and need to enjoy entertainment, so even those who tell stories and sing operas can also find a job, and the demand for pen, ink, paper and inkstone is also increasing...... Not to mention anything else, after the coal is mined in each coal mine, the entire Xuanfu Town alone needs a huge amount of honeycomb coal every year, and how many people can be fed? ”

Therefore, in order for the people to have a way to live, they need to divide more industries and more classes. The richer the people are, the more industries of all kinds can be produced. and feed more people......"

Not to mention Zhang Gui, Qi Tianliang and others, even Zhang Guowei, they were all dumbfounded. A coal mine and iron mine, in the eyes of the general, there are so many doorways. Sure enough, those who descend from the stars have different knowledge from ordinary people.

Wang Dou disagreed, in later generations, a real estate industry can drive building materials, construction, home improvement, furniture, home appliances, services and other related industries. The steel industry and coal mining industry can drive more ancillary industries.

And at this time, it was basically a handicraft, labor-intensive industry. It can solve the problem of feeding a lot of people, and as for the dangers of mining, no one has considered this problem yet.

Zhang Guiqi said Ai Ai: "I'm afraid that the miners are so brave and ruthless, and it is difficult to control." ”

Wang Dou nodded: "There are pros and cons in everything, don't waste food because of choking, just strictly supervise." ”

It's no wonder that Zhang Gui said this, in other places in the Ming Dynasty, the miners in terms of organization, physical strength, etc., than ordinary farmers, not a little bit higher, the world-famous Qi family army, a large part, is composed of miners, over the years, all over the Ming Dynasty, about the miners fighting in an endless stream, so that the magistrates have a headache.

Moreover, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, most of the minerals in various places have been occupied by Haoqiang, more than ninety percent, and the mining tax has not been paid, and the government has not benefited from it at all.

What's even worse is that the quality of the miners is uneven, many of them are stateless refugees, as well as hooligans and ruffians from all over the country, scoundrels, and many mine owners are extremely backward in their management methods, and they use the method of family terror.

As a result, if there is a mine in Fanzhou County, if a volcano is about to erupt, how can it not make the local officials and generals frightened?

However, Wang Dou didn't care, they were not the working class of later generations, they were just a gang of rabble, when it came to the overall combat effectiveness, it was a mine with thousands of strong men, and it was not as good as the people of a tunpu, not to mention the strong Jingbian army, it was the tunding of a fort, and these miners could also be defeated.

He said: "The management of the mine, the Department of Civil Affairs should be carried out in accordance with the law, audit the household stickers of the mine owners and miners, there must be no black households, and do not be afraid of them making trouble, they make trouble now, it is better than making trouble in the future, and if the troublemakers are killed, there will be no troublemakers in the future." ”

The quality of the mine owners and miners cannot be improved for the time being, just as the good family is reluctant to join the army outside the East Road, and the good farmers are unwilling to enter the mine, so except for a small number of artisan households, most of the miners at the moment are not good goods.

Some soldiers, green skins, prisoners, etc., they are serving sentences for crimes, and they also enter the mines, so at the moment, all the mines are like garbage shelters, and they are feared places.

Moreover, in this era, mining and mining, the disability rate is very high, Wang Dou in addition to the law, the mine owners should try their best to ensure the safety of the miners, as well as wages, rations, the rest, can only let them evolve naturally.

Wang Dou's tone was flat, but the cold meaning in his words still made Zhang Guowei shudder, and he hurriedly said: "The general can rest assured, the mines under the last general's clan will definitely abide by the law and not cause trouble to the general."

Wang Dou nodded slightly, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the mine was strictly controlled, and mining must be approved by the government.

Now Wang Dou has restored the supervisors of the mines under his jurisdiction, only supervising, not participating in the management, depending on the amount of mining every year, and also needs to pay taxes, and many laws protect the miners, and at the same time, they are welcomed by the miners, which naturally causes many mine owners to be dissatisfied.

Although the orders are abundant, the mine owners are full of money, but they are used to it, watching the tax flow out, naturally distressed, for a long time, may try to make trouble, but Wang Dou is no better than other officials, there are those who dare to make trouble, do not mind killing a river of blood.

And the order is rich, it does not mean that the mine owners will improve the production equipment, ninety out of nine, it will only be more crazy to squeeze the miners, stir up contradictions, and cause miners to riot, although Zhang Guowei is a person who understands the times, his people, but they do not necessarily have this awareness.

He was worried that the profit-hungry clansmen would make unwise moves and become an eyeless figure for Wang Dou to kill chickens and monkeys again, so he hurriedly assured Wang Dou that at the same time, he also thought about going back to beat those clansmen.

Although Qi Tianliang is an ambassador of the Logistics Department, he has a keen understanding of agricultural affairs. What he was worried about was another matter: "General, Xuanzhen Daxing Factory Mine Business." Will there be a shortage of manpower? The subordinates are worried that the more people engage in business, will it cause a food and rice famine? ”

Wang Dou nodded slightly: "Lao Qi's concern is right, so now the shogunate is taking measures." It is to attract good displaced people to enter Tunpu, and they also have an advantage in the division of household registration. It can attract the largest number of people, and with the new tunpu camp system, the grain and rice cultivated in the future can still meet the needs of the military and civilians in the town. ”

Qi Tianliang's worries are also Wang Dou's worries, the productivity of this era is low, especially all kinds of disasters and famines. If there are a few cultivators, it is very likely to cause famine, just like Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty, because commerce is too developed, Jiangnan. On the contrary, there is a shortage of food, and it needs to be imported from Guangdong, Huguang and other places.

Jiangnan, the land of fish and rice, not only did not become the help of the Ming Dynasty, but became a scourge, and the reason why the Ming Dynasty fell was that commerce was overdeveloped, which was an important reason.

Moreover, the businessmen of this era, who do not produce or talk about it, still see profit and forget righteousness, and have no concept of courtesy, righteousness and honesty, although they have some circulation effects, but the positive role they play in society is far from being able to offset the negative role they play.

During the period of special disaster years, hoarding and buying relief grain, then raising the market price, and then buying land at a low price, often after a famine, most of the land in many places was taken away by them.

Therefore, in this era, it is necessary to suppress commerce lightly, China's policy of emphasizing agriculture and light commerce for thousands of years is correct, back to ancient times, only people with brains in water will be eager to improve the status of merchants.

Agriculture is the foundation of everything, that is, in the history of Western countries, but also after the agricultural revolution, logically, into the industrial revolution, the status of Ming merchants has been high enough, high to the point of disaster to the country and the people, those old-style businessmen, their status not only can not be improved, but also need to be suppressed.

Wang Dou's support for a new type of productive merchant was also based on the fact that agriculture could meet the needs of the military and civilians in the town, and if the two would endanger agriculture, he would not hesitate to destroy most of the town's commerce and industry.

Zhang Gui is in charge of the Department of Civil Affairs, and now he is paying more and more attention to the shops, factories and mines under his jurisdiction, and he hurriedly said: "The general can rest assured that the grain and rice in the future will be able to meet the needs of the military and civilians in the town!" ”

He said: "Now in the town, the fields allocated by each household basically have surplus grain, and a lot can be purchased every year. Many of the camps in Xintunpu are also because of the use of the meritorious system, and the fields can only be divided when the merits are obtained, and the people of the tun are also very energetic. ”

"Also, because of the seizure of a large number of horses, many fields in Xintunpu are now ploughed by horses, and the fields that can be cultivated in one fort are also becoming more and more ......."

Wang Dou nodded, most of the Jiangnan are paddy fields, and the fields are fragmented, so they can only use intensive farming and cattle farming, but the north is not as good as the south of the Yangtze River, the land is continuous, and it is basically dry land, so the cultivation method can be wild, using horse farming.

Using horse farming, the yield of the field is of course not as good as intensive cattle farming, but because of the large cultivated area, this adds up to a lot, and the yield is also a lot.

Now for Wang Dou, land is not a problem, the land in the town is insufficient, and it is necessary to develop outside the city.

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They marched westward, and soon came to the edge of a river, where, along both sides of the river, a new military factory was set up, quite large, with more than a thousand craftsmen, and like the iron factory, with high and thick walls on all sides, and many sentry posts, and idlers were not allowed to enter.

Just like the army, the craftsmen in the factory all have uniforms, they all wear fox hats, wear short overalls, the color is green, there are mandarin ducks in red, and when they walk, they show their sleeves red from time to time.

At present, there is no master craftsman in the entire shogunate, most of them are inferior craftsmen, some are medium craftsmen, and a small number of high-class craftsmen.

For craftsmen, it is easy to become a craftsman, but it is difficult to become a craftsman, because it requires cultural assessment, and the assessment requirements are still very high.

However, like the military, many craftsmen under the shogunate have become the first to get rich, especially those who have inventions or sell their skills, and they have obtained "patents" and sat down to collect money.

In particular, Li Maosen and Lai Yuanlong, because of the research of the fire door device, can be described as a lot of money, as well as Zhou Xiang, who sold the casting technology, and also earned a lot of income every year, with their example, the craftsmen are very highly motivated. (To be continued.) )